g, fl, *1940 GB, Southampton
Musician / Composer / Conductor of Rock and Pop
A.k.a. Michael Graham Vickers Matt Parsons Orchestra
Michael "Mike" Vickers (born 18 April 1940) is a British musician who came to prominence as guitarist, flautist and saxophonist with the 1960s band, Manfred Mann. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, England. He originally played flute and saxophone but with the increasing popularity of guitars in bands it was decided that Manfred Mann should have a guitarist in its line-up. Vickers volunteered for this role but he was always happiest playing woodwind. His tough flute soloing on hard blues tracks such as "Without You" prefigured the work of Ian Anderson with Jethro Tull five years later. As the group were all multi-instrumentalists who delighted in instrumental solos, multi-tracking was used to allow Vickers to perform on guitar and woodwind on the same recordings, while drummer Mike Hug
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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The Adding Machine / Elastic Band | Mike Vickers | 2019 | Single |
Dracula A.D. 1972 / The Satanic Rites Of Dracula (Original Music From The Classic Hammer Horrors) | Mike Vickers / John Cacavas | 2012 | Compil. |
Dracula A.D. 1972 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Mike Vickers | 2009 | Album |
The EMIDISC Theme / On The Brink | Saint Etienne / Mike Vickers | 1996 | Single |
Industry 17 - Serious Business | Alan Hawkshaw, Zack Laurence, Brian Bennett, Mike Vickers | 1991 | Album |
Planet Earth | Mike Vickers, Alan Hawkshaw | 1991 | Album |
Industry 16 - Panoscope | Mike Vickers, Patrick Wilson, Adam Routh, Russell Emanuel, Gary Peskett, Steve Gray, Kevin Malpass | 1990 | Album |
Industry 9 - Technicolor | Mo Foster / Mike Vickers | 1989 | Album |
Points Of Impact | Ray Russell / Nick Ingman / Mike Vickers | 1984 | Album |
Captain Kremmen | Kenny Everett & Mike Vickers | 1978 | Single |
An Album Of Space And Science Fiction Tracks And Unusual Brass Fanfares | Mike Vickers, Ernest Berk, Bill McGuffie | 1978 | Album |
A Day At The Races | Mike Vickers | 1976 | Album |
A Moog For More Reasons | Mike Vickers | 1975 | Album |
Electronic Music | Mike Vickers | 1974 | Album |
Brass Plus Moog | Mike Vickers | 1972 | Album |
A Moog For All Reasons | Mike Vickers | 1972 | Album |
I Wish I Were A Group Again | Mike Vickers | 1967 | Album |
Captain Scarlet And The Mysterions | Mike Vickers | 1967 | Single |
I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman / Proper Charles | Mike Vickers | 1967 | Single |
I Wish I Were A Group Again | Mike Vickers | 1967 | Album |
Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment / Gorilla Of My Dreams | Mike Vickers | 1966 | Single |
On The Brink | Mike Vickers | 1965 | Single |
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